Hi Folks
The big problem I am encountering is how to actually use Obsidian to implement the JD system using the note for each ID.
I am ok to just copy Johnny Decimal on my mac for my life admin, listen to him, but I have to implement a standard file structure at work and at work they only use windows machines.
Obsidian is quite the beast. Can anyone recommend a great website or you tube video of how to use modern JDEX on an Obsidian system?
Currently Bear has already a beta test for Bear web running. I really like the web version and itsās already very capable.
You can try to join the test here: [Tester wanted!] Bear Web Beta update - #437 by whschreiber - Announcement - Bear Community
Maybe the web version will be sufficient for you.
Weāre hoping to do lots of Obsidian starter-level stuff to accompany the small business system, and itāll all be public on YouTube. But no time in the immediate future, sorry.
My tips for Obsidian use:
[[wiki-links]].Structurally, Obsidian is identical to Bear. Left pane(s) = list of all your notes. Middle pane = the text. Right pane = optional more information, but you never need to open that.
Just start real simple and gradually introduce yourself to new features as you think you might need them.
Agreed with Johnny. Keep it simple, so when Obsidian or Bear or whatever app dies, you just spin up the next app with your original files.
My workflow in Obsidian is pretty straight forward:
[[XX.XX]] wiki-link to my JD ID note that the work Iām note taking about pertains to. This way I can go to my JD ID note and have a chronological list of work done for/in an ID.[[playfulness]] causes [[strength]] in line while Iām writing notes (a real example from my recent reading of Jane McGonigalās Superbetter).The resulting file structure based on alphabetical sorting really looks like a notebook.
I have my JDEX at the top of my files 00-49 is all I use for my system, 202X-MM-DD daily notes automatically sort down below my JDEX note files, and way down below I have a growing list of words like āplayfulnessā and āstrengthā sorting alphabetically, as if Iām assembling an appendix on auto-pilot.
To further emphasize the point of sticking to the basics, @clappingcactusās four points are pretty much what I do currently in a bare text editor[1]. A workflow/format like this is the essence. Obsidian provides the automatic linking and backlinks, which makes navigating fast, but the information is all there in the plain text. Currently, I have to do quite a bit of manual lookup to resolve those links, but it is doable. So I would second the suggestion to avoid plugins and focus on getting a workflow working with the basics first.
I also tend to agree with point 4 about how to use ātagsā. I think of them like literal āsticky notesā that you put on something so you donāt forget it, until theyāre no longer needed. Point being: good (markdown) titles and links deliver more value.
off-topic @clappingcactus: so you are using a flat structure? I thought I caught that in this recent post.
except point 3, which inspires me. Maybe using a format like this will help me find notes and ideas again better. ā©ļø
The causal-resulting relationship is now the cornerstone of how I read/write anything. Well ā¦ maybe not spammy long posts on the JD forums, but you know. It helps me see when a text is circling an idea without really knowing how to formulate it, and helps me realize that I have the wrong argumentation structure in my writing.
Yes, I have now gone and adopted a full flat structure for both my JD and my notes.
The thinking on that was moving away from a filesystem-first mentality. I am a single human, Iām working with a set of concepts that build my life up. One of those concepts happens to be my mental organizational ability, and that happens to coincide with my ability to save things to a computer, but those two things are not the same. My file system now actually exists as 23.22 in my system. Just like I happen to have 37.16 an online backup system that has my JD system in it, or 31.25 my notebook that I carry with me. It so happens that my computer file system reflects the structure of my JDEX and can store a lot of files for it, but it is not the system itself, so I see no reason to have it nested. I now regularly cull folders from my file-system when I donāt need them, because the real work happens at the Index level after all.
Sorry for derailing the thread. Iāll continue this elsewhere @clappingcactus ā great stuff and I feel a new topic brewing. 
@kelso, are the tips above getting to your questions? It also seems like youāre wrestling with limitations on Windows machines at work. Are you hoping Obsidian will provide a cross-platform place to keep things structured the way you want?
To bring the thread back on point, Iād like to mention that Iām using this system not because Iām afraid of complexity but because Iām past the point of complexity and Iāve realized all other note taking styles can be formatted to be compatible with this one.
Itās not that Iām afraid of plugins, itās that Iāve used them, thought I can replicate their benefits more simply, and then gone ahead and arrived at the ābasicā system above.
Open for questions re: the original topic of course. 
Sorry for derailing haha.
Yes, this formulates my point a lot better than I did originally. The text files I work with āby handā could be imported almost as-is into Obsidian and Obsidianās automagic (back)linking would pick them up and just work. Obsidian would provide speedup and itās only my own stubbornness keeping me from using it and following links with grep instead; but the point is that the real power is in the format, and then maybe in the ergonomics of being able to follow links easily; and all the plugins beyond that are, indeed, either just extras or for very specific use-cases.